Dr. Kenneth B. Chance Sr.: member Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees

Ebony, Oct, 2005

Dr. Kenneth B. Chance Sr. is the first dentist to be named to the Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees. He is a professor and division chief of endodontics at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry. He has received more than 50 honors and citations for his contributions to dentistry.

As a member of the Case Board of Trustees, Dr. Chance says he feels his life has come full circle after earning his doctor of dental surgery at Case nearly 25 years ago. "It is a pleasure to serve this institution that has given so much to me," he says. Before Kentucky, Dr. Chance served as dean and professor at the Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in Nashville. He has served in leadership roles at several institutions, including as chairman of the American Dental Education Association's Section on Minority Affairs and as an elected member-at-large of the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans of the American Dental Association. He received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University. He lives in Lexington, Ky., and has four children, Kenneth Chance Jr., Dana Chance, Jacquelyn Chance and Christopher Chance.